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Businessman Roman Janoušek started to serve his four-year sentence in Prague’s Ruzyně prison on Tuesday for a hit and run incident which occurred in 2012. Mr Janoušek has previously filed a request with Prague Municipal Court to postpone his sentence on health grounds. According to his lawyer, Mr. Janoušek suffers from health problems following a brain operation and allegedly needs further surgery. The court is to deal with the case on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka, who is on a four-day visit to the United States, is set to meet with vice president Joe Biden in the White House on Tuesday. Mr Sobotka along with his delegation, including former Czech foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg and former First Lady Dagmar Havlová, on Monday attended a concert of the Czech Philharmonic at the National Cathedral in Washington to mark the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. The Czech Prime Minister is also set to unveil a bust of Václav Havel in the Capitol Building, where Mr. Havel addressed a joint session of Congress in February 1990.

Car production in the Czech Republic is likely to reach a record 1.2 million in 2014, according to the head of the country’s Automotive Industry Association Antonín Šípek. The production of cars over the past ten months has grown by nearly 12 percent compared to the same period last year, to 1.047 million. The country’s biggest car maker Škoda Auto increased its production by 5 percent to more than 600,000 cars. The current record for car production is 1.195 million, registered in 2011.

The non-profit organisation Post Bellum, which documents important historical phenomena of the 20th century through eyewitness accounts, handed out its annual Memory of the Nation awards on Monday night. This year’s recipients are German Manfred Matthies, who helped to smuggle people across the Iron Curtain, Czech teacher Dana Vargová, who was involved in anti-regime activities while looking after her disabled son, János Kenedi, a leading figure of the Hungarian underground, Slovak priest Anton Srholc and Polish dissident Kornel Mazowiecki.